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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 7h

Living to see America become an adversary is not something I thought I'd live to see.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 7h

Ohhh rewatching the X files, that's an idea 👍🏻

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 7h

So many puns to be made from this, so little time.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 11h

Do people and companies REALLY know what this tech is going to cost them in the long run!? Once they're addicted to a robot that makes constant errors. Data centres aren't paying for themselves.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 11h

I don't subscribe to any AI models except what is lumped in with my Google drive storage. I just got an email saying my subscription now only entitles me to use the basic models. I don't use them anyway, but that's the first crank of the monetisation wheel I've seen.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 22h

I can't comprehend this. If I try it I'm tackling myself and hitting the advertising hoarding ... best case I kinda vault it and get stretched off with a Jordan Henderson injury, worst case full decapitation.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I waited so so long - literally with hope in my heart - and I get THIS. This is my reward, my club's reward. I'm so so close to being done with football, and that's the biggest thing City have ever stolen from me.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The failure to prevent cheating. They cost us. The failure to bring swift justice and a deliver punishment to befit the crime. They cost us.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And all those decades flash by. And I feel anger, upset, and (unsurprisingly) I feel cheated. I look back at the sheer volume of bad ref decisions against us/for City. They cost us. The failure to block state ownership of a club. They cost us.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Then comes Sunday. Smarmy smug city players with no contrition grinning down the lens of the camera. Boyant and defiant city fans with their fucking inflatable yellow cock-like bananas to remind everyone what we've all been fucked by. And a cheating (ok, be nice, fucking inept Mancunian ref again!)

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

recovery seasons after most close pushes. City cost us a period of domination under Klopp.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But I knew then, we all did, that the team we were going head to head with was cheating. This cost us - I think - more than just the titles where we finished 2nd. It was so so so draining on our smaller squad - and intensity we had to play at to try and beat the cheats - that we suffered

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The reward? One league title (for Jürgen's era). I'll take it, don't get me wrong. That title is worth more to me than anything City brought off the shelf at the sheikh's command.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

With some glorious memories outside of the league that meant the world. But you wait in hope in football don't you. One day could we win the league again? And along came Jürgen. I've never seen football like it. What a team. What a manager.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This obviously means I saw our last league win the season after but don't remember much about it. So my supporter formative years were full of nearly moments of the 90s onwards. Horrible painful seasons. Hopeful seasons too. Barren turgid seasons. Ownership debacles. On this went for 3 decades.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I became a Liverpool fan in 1989 - weirdly because I felt sorry for them on the final day that cost the title to Arsenal. That and I was a goalkeeper and Grobbelaar was my hero. That and Liverpool fans, the Kop, everything reeled me in.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I haven't quite got over this weekend because it's brought a lot of football pain back (yes, there are worse forms of pain available). I've written some thoughts on it. Spoiler: having a decade of dominance stolen off you, hurts.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I feel the eyes of all the faux Christian black shirt warriors out there twitching right now. And that's a great thing.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm no fan of the media in this country, but isn't this a standard criminal trail procedure that they can only report an arrest/charge and no further details until the trial is over.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And they've been played and manipulated since the birth of democracy. Media is so so key, failing to ensure balance in the media can be fatal. And opening our media up - through X and others - to being fed russian content is clearly a catastrophic mistake.

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Gareth Roberts @garethroberts3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I went to Anfield yesterday with a naive belief that in sport integrity and honesty and abiding by rules and process still matters. Seeing city fans celebrating their dishonesty was like watching the football equivalent of MAGA,Trump and Farage. City fans sometimes you have to pick the right side.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yup my daughter did karate and I'm now encouraging another as she didn't like the exams. So hard to explain to an 11 year old why I'm pushing it so much. Desperately sad

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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 12/10/2026

Reflecting on yesterday… the City stuff is still raw and Liverpool suffered from their cheating more than most. But given the reaction, I suspect that if they get away without being severely punished then that will be it for a lot of fans. Finished. Why invest time and money in a rigged game?

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As others have said 'what's the point?' but that's two things for me: 1) they cheated obvs 2) they ALWAYS get the referee's decisions, and ALWAYS have done I just don't trust what I'm watching, and it's close to over for me investing time, money, emotion in watching.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I mean ... if this is football now we need a breakaway league. The cheating doesn't stop at the finances, the ref calls have landed this bunch of cheating c*nts title after title. With vast sums of money ALWAYS follows, corruption.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm loving this pre season prediction so far.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Come on Liverpool deal a bit of justice out today

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fuck All. You've never won fuck all. #sham #city #frauds #shamchester #pep #guardiola

Pep holding 6 fingers up to Liverpool fans, edited to cross out all fingers and put a dunce's hat on his baldy nob head

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It might be wise for City players to (try to) protect their reputations rather than double down in lockstep with their cheating overlords.

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The only thing I'd like to see is that the tax should be based on the amount RECEIVED BY THE BENEFICIARIES. If you're from a large family in the south, house prices mean it's punishing how little of your family's money can be passed on to e.g. your grandkids.

e.gm

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Stephen Drennan (BabuYagu) @babuyagu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Haven't said anything yet about the City verdict - I'm seeing a lot of downward negotiating and the talking heads in the media saying the Premier League and its clubs have 'no appetite' for expulsion or title stripping... so lets talk about this. 🧵 Why Cheat? In the simplest terms, to win. In a

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Lieutenant Frangipane @laingeth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don't they first need to do something about BBC management and governance? Because it's so broken when it comes to news coverage that I'm a full convert from its biggest fan to not watching or listening to its news output at all.

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